Furman argues the case for remedial change well in his Brookings  papers. A  July 2007 paper he co-wrote with Rubin makes a powerful  economic case for  universal health care. The current system, he argued,  is putting a strain on  businesses, wages and jobs; it is adding to  America’s 
Short Prom Dresses  problems and reducing its competitiveness in global markets. An October  2007  online piece argued for cutting corporate tax rates while at the  same time  repealing the Alternative Minimum Tax to help middle-class  taxpayers. An April  2008 column in Slate offered a sensible road map  for fixing what Furman  calculated was the $4 trillion impact of Bush’s  tax and spending policies. He  stressed honest budgeting, bipartisan  efforts to cut the deficit and a  presidential willingness to veto  budget-busting proposals. Sensible stuff, but  not exciting.
To make the repair job sound visionary, Obama is enlisting Rep. Rahm  Emanuel,  the best idea-packager the Democrats have. As a former adviser  to President  Clinton, Emanuel has been walking a tightrope for months,  trying to keep faith  with Hillary even as he recognized that Obama was  a once-in-a-generation leader.  Now he’s all Obama, all the time.  Emanuel has argued that the Democrats need “A  New Deal for the New  Economy,” as he titled a March op-ed piece.
Emanuel takes the basic agenda – health care, 
Black Prom Dresses  policy and tax reform – and dresses it up into  a new social contract  for the age of globalization. That’s the Democrats’  challenge now. They  have the candidate, but do they have the ideas?
Japanese casual wear maker Uniqlo claims its shopping bags are made  of  polyethylene which can cut carbon dioxide emissions by 60 percent,  compared to  bags used in the past.
The new shopping bag doesn’t look different, but is 
Cheap Long  Prom Dresses  percent thinner than a regular bag and costs a little  more. By June,  750 Uniqlo shops nationwide will use the greener bags. They will  also  be rolled out to most of their outlets overseas.
More fashion houses are increasingly producing clothes and bags made  from  eco-friendly materials. Ecomaco, launched in 2003, is one of them.  The brand has  been gaining a lot of media attention lately, for making  its dresses and some of  its bags from corn, bamboo, and leaves.
Ecomaco’s designer, Masako Oka, uses leftovers from kimonos and the  hems of  jeans in her creative designs. Some of her clothes are dyed  using extracts from  fruits, including grapes.
Based in Nagano, Ecomaco has set up shop  the prestigious Mitsukoshi department store in  Nihonbashi and in a few other huge retailers.
Oka said she became eco-conscious back in 1994.